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When muscles work out, they help neurons to grow, a new study shows

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Re: When muscles work out, they help neurons to grow, a new study shows

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Post by zukzuk »

kombine wrote: post #28
almost_usual wrote: post #22

Two things that will improve mental clarity and sleep. Not drinking alcohol and strength training.

I've had a lot of fights about this with my girlfriend. We both work in academia and regularly go to the gym, but she insists to have a drink every now and then, which she says helps her take an edge off work stress. She also scolds me some times when I want to go to bed before 10pm, saying this is too restrictive and less fun. We ended up breaking up last week - not exclusively because of this, but these incompatibi…

In this scenario, I am your girlfriend, and you are my boyfriend (or from my perspective you are my wife ).

For what it’s worth, I’ve found that if I try to go to bed too early — as my wife often insists — I wake up in the middle of the night. This happens constantly enough that I really try to avoid being in bed before 11pm.

Re: When muscles work out, they help neurons to grow, a new study shows

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Post by evilduck »

mp05 wrote: post #15
dartos wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s almost like people are different, right? lol In my experience, a lot of really fit engineers see it as another optimization problem, which is an interesting way to look at working out. I’ve been trying to adopt that mindset.

Careful, you'll get scorn from those who think you should be spending that time doing leetcode. How could you be any good at your job when you're flexing and sweating all the time?

Grit is grit. If you can do one you can probably do the other.

Re: When muscles work out, they help neurons to grow, a new study shows

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Post by Melonotromo »

kombine wrote: post #28
almost_usual wrote: post #22

Two things that will improve mental clarity and sleep. Not drinking alcohol and strength training.

I've had a lot of fights about this with my girlfriend. We both work in academia and regularly go to the gym, but she insists to have a drink every now and then, which she says helps her take an edge off work stress. She also scolds me some times when I want to go to bed before 10pm, saying this is too restrictive and less fun. We ended up breaking up last week - not exclusively because of this, but these incompatibi…

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Re: When muscles work out, they help neurons to grow, a new study shows

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Post by voxic11 »

evnp wrote: post #36
almost_usual wrote: post #22

Two things that will improve mental clarity and sleep. Not drinking alcohol and strength training.

Just going to leave this here as a counterpoint, since sibling comments feel one-sided on the question: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6957093/#:~:text=In...

That doesn't really say anything about alcohol's effect on (non-dementia related) mental clarity and sleep.

Also if you continue to read that meta-analysis beyond the sentence you linked to it seems that much larger studies did not find a correlation between reduced dementia risk and moderate alcohol consumption. In fact they found that high alcohol consumption was associated with significantly higher risk of dementia. The overall conclusion of the analysis was "Available epidemiological studies are not sufficient to verify a protective effect of alcohol on dementia development."

Re: When muscles work out, they help neurons to grow, a new study shows

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Post by BiteCode_dev »

evnp wrote: post #36
almost_usual wrote: post #22

Two things that will improve mental clarity and sleep. Not drinking alcohol and strength training.

Just going to leave this here as a counterpoint, since sibling comments feel one-sided on the question: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6957093/#:~:text=In...

Thanks for reminding me of :~:text=.

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Post by tpm »

myth_drannon wrote: post #29
tsunamifury wrote: post #17

A brisk one our walk or hill climb of a few lifts of a 10-15lb weight weight set does wonders for reducing anxiety, stopping stiffness and soreness, getting the brain thinking. The whole body is a thinking system with nerves and muscles that need feedback to work as well.

How much of it is just reduced CO2 from being in the open air vs sitting in a stuffy office?

Not much I would think - there is a clear difference between just being outside and being outside while expending lots of energy, at least for me.

Re: When muscles work out, they help neurons to grow, a new study shows

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Post by elsamuko »

FartyMcFarter wrote: post #5

Muscles need neurons to control them, so it makes sense that some feedback loop would exist. I remember reading about similar feedback loops between muscle growth and bone density (as you get stronger, bones benefit from being resilient to higher loads). As I understand it, the kinetic chain goes nervous system -> muscles -> tendons -> bones. It would make sense for all of these to make each other stronger in some wa…

Sea squirts digest their own brain when they become stationary: https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2022/07/20/what-can-sea-squir...

Re: When muscles work out, they help neurons to grow, a new study shows

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Post by pelagicAustral »

almost_usual wrote: post #22

Two things that will improve mental clarity and sleep. Not drinking alcohol and strength training.

I haven't had a drink, or smoked for two months and my sleeping has improved so much it is crazy, absolutely crazy... I do need to get back to the gym, it is just so hard to muscle the strength to go when I'm not feeling particularly good about myself, which is dumb, since that is the reason I want to get back into it...

Re: When muscles work out, they help neurons to grow, a new study shows

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Post by boredemployee »

blastonico wrote: post #39

Ok, I'm almost convinced to start lifting weights... if they release a study showing hair growing I'll be 100% in.

if you can, start right away. i've always been known among my friends as the most sedentary, lazy, and effort-averse person in the world. but five months ago, that changed, and I regret not starting sooner. it seems like you develop a self-challenge component that you'll only understand once you start
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